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CESPEDES MONCADA, Ariadna  y  CASTELLANOS SIERRA, Georgina. Sacrococcigeal chordoma in a middle age patient. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.10, pp. 1430-1435. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 48 year-old man who was admitted in "Dr. Joaquín Castillo Duany" Teaching Clinical Surgical Hospital from Santiago de Cuba in the 2007 is presented, due to difficulties for defecating. According to a clinical-radiological evaluation, a sacrococcigeal chordoma was diagnosed and he was discharged due to the tumor stage, with the indication of follow up through out patient department. In the month of July of that same year, he was hospitalized in the National Institute of Oncology and Radiology, where he was surgically treated. A year later, he was admitted in "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" Teaching General Hospital, with signs of tumor relapse of great extension. He died 6 months later

Palabras clave : chordoma; sacrococcigeal region; cancer; tumor relapse.

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